Metropilitan Watford Curve
 

Can anyone please tell me - Is the Watford Curve ever used from the
Rickmansworth end, this is the curve with the short tunnel, are trains
ever run from Amersham to Watford, or vive versa?

Nigel

Metropilitan Watford Curve
 

"Nigel " wrote in message
...
Can anyone please tell me - Is the Watford Curve ever used from the
Rickmansworth end, this is the curve with the short tunnel, are
trains
ever run from Amersham to Watford, or vive versa?


Yeah.

Looking at the "first/last times" info for the Met on the Tube
website, Mon-Sat there is a train at 5:19 from Chesham that runs to
Watford, arriving at 5:45.
There may be some more slightly later on.
Plus, at the end of the day, there is a train from Watford at 0050 to
Rickmansworth, 0058.

There are also some early on Sunday.

http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/content/first...tropolitan.pdf

Metropilitan Watford Curve
 

Yes trains do use that, but there is no regular service from Amersham to
Watford, although they may have to use that route in an emergency.

Nigel wrote:

Can anyone please tell me - Is the Watford Curve ever used from the
Rickmansworth end, this is the curve with the short tunnel, are trains
ever run from Amersham to Watford, or vive versa?

Nigel

Metropilitan Watford Curve
 

Does this put the a stock back to front?

Metropilitan Watford Curve
 

rob ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Does this put the a stock back to front?

Erm, they're double-ended, aren't they?

They certainly don't turn 'em round at any of the terminus stations...

Metropilitan Watford Curve
 

i mean they have a dedicated north end and a dedicated south end. This
is for coupling reasons.

Metropilitan Watford Curve
 

rob ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

i mean they have a dedicated north end and a dedicated south end. This
is for coupling reasons.

Really? You live and learn. What's the difference?

Metropilitan Watford Curve
 

"Adrian" wrote in message
. 1.4...
rob ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Does this put the a stock back to front?

Erm, they're double-ended, aren't they?

The Met runs everything, apart from the Chesham shuttle, as 8-car units with
(IIRC) the A-ends outermost. So it makes no difference which way round the
8-car set is.

Metropilitan Watford Curve
 

Adrian wrote:
rob ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

Does this put the a stock back to front?

Erm, they're double-ended, aren't they?

They certainly don't turn 'em round at any of the terminus
stations...

At one time, all A60 and A62 units were double ended - IOW, both cabs
could be used in passenger service. The conversion to OPO and the
robbing of some cabs for spares has led to all but approx. 25-30 units
becoming single ended, meaning they have only one cab that can be used
in passenger service. Of the remaining double ended units, OPO
circuitry has meant that the couplers are no longer fully reversible,
preventing double ended units from coupling wrong-ended (i.e. A to A or
D to D). Other than that, they retain the flexibility of any double
ended unit and can be turned end-for-end on the Watford Triangle and
still be driven in the correct way.

Metropilitan Watford Curve
 

TheOneKEA ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

Does this put the a stock back to front?

Erm, they're double-ended, aren't they?

They certainly don't turn 'em round at any of the terminus
stations...

At one time, all A60 and A62 units were double ended - IOW, both cabs
could be used in passenger service. The conversion to OPO and the
robbing of some cabs for spares has led to all but approx. 25-30 units
becoming single ended, meaning they have only one cab that can be used
in passenger service. Of the remaining double ended units, OPO
circuitry has meant that the couplers are no longer fully reversible,
preventing double ended units from coupling wrong-ended (i.e. A to A or
D to D). Other than that, they retain the flexibility of any double
ended unit and can be turned end-for-end on the Watford Triangle and
still be driven in the correct way.

You've lost me.

Both ends of a "Met train" *must* work - because they drive 'em from one
end heading into Baker St from the sticks, and the other end heading back
to civilisation from town.

So what's the difference between the driver's end heading North and the
driver's end heading South that would mean that there's a "right" and a
"wrong" way round?